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Aug 14, 2011 at 12:01 AMAug 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM

Bad weather and rising commodity costs have taken a toll on Scotts Miracle-Gro, prompting the company to cut its full-year profit forecast as it announced quarterly earnings. The Marysville-based lawn-and-garden company also announced it will trim its management staff. It didn't say how many people will be let go.

• Bad weather and rising commodity costs have taken a toll on Scotts Miracle-Gro, prompting the company to cut its full-year profit forecast as it announced quarterly earnings. The Marysville-based lawn-and-garden company also announced it will trim its management staff. It didn’t say how many people will be let go.

• Central Ohio homeowners struggling to pay their JPMorgan Chase & Co. mortgage payment can seek help at a homeownership center at 8800 Lyra Dr. near Polaris Fashion Place. People with Chase loans can come there on their own and discuss ways to address the problems they’re having paying them.

• For the third straight year, the cost of insuring your home has taken a big jump. Rates rose an average of 8.7 percent last year among the state’s top 10 homeowner insurers, according to Ohio Department of Insurance figures.

• Personal incomes in central Ohio rose more than 3 percent last year compared with the year before, in part because of governmental employment. However, cuts in the government sector in 2011 could mean it will be difficult for incomes locally to continue that pace of increase.

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